Training Week 9/10

Sorry for the late post… It’s been a busy week.  Good, but busy.  Fitting in the runs has been a struggle but I’ve managed most of them (I missed the short run on Thursday). I’m almost halfway though! My ‘running week’ ends on a Monday with the long run.  This week my training has changed Read More …

Training Week 8

Running this week has been pretty good.  I dug around the miCoach site and found that my race pace should be 10 seconds below the top of the green zone.  I’ve been struggling to get into the yellow zone and maintain that pace… it was just a little too fast.  I reduced the pace zones Read More …

one third

I’m a third of the way through my training for my half marathon in September in aid of Christian Aid. Here are the stats: So far I’ve run 34 times. I missed 3 runs when we were on holiday. I’ve run 205.97km in 20 hours 13 minutes and 05 seconds. I’ve used 16577 calories. And Read More …

Training: week 6

I’ve had an odd week as far as training goes.  I was in Thurso this weekend so I had to get up early on Friday and get the killer run done before driving a few hundred miles.  That’s not a great idea.  Run 10k then sit still for 6 hours.  The upside was a run Read More …

Training: week 5

This week has been hard going on the training front.  Too many late nights (3.30am on election night!) and too much birthday cake but I got the runs done. Wednesday – short run but very heavy legs.  I’m finding the short runs after a recovery day all feel a bit heavy. Thursday – the best Read More …

vote 2011

It’s polling day here in Scotland.  We elect the Scottish Government which is a parliament devolved from the UK parliament with powers over pretty much everything apart from tax and defence. The most striking feature of the campaign so far is how surprisingly poor Scottish Labour’s campaign has been.  They seem stuck in a negative Read More …